rhetorIcian

& a. [Fr. rhétoricien.] A. As substantive: 1. One who teaches or profe es the oric, or the principles and of correct and ele the system, and scarlatina also sometimes produces gant speaking and writing; a profe or or teacher of oratory. "They had been long instructed by rhetoricians." Goldsmith: Bee, No. 6. 2. One who is versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. 3. A public speaker, espec. one who declaims for show; an orator. "His natural eloquence moved the envy of practiced rhetoricians."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. iv. it in children. Predisposition to this disease is distinctly hereditary. It chiefly attacks persons from fifteen to thirty-five years of age, but no time of life is exempt. Affections of the heart are present in most acute cases, particularly pericarditis, with the blowing, bellows-like murmur so characteristic of this complication, and this is apt to be permanent. It is usual for many attacks to follow through life, and in the young chorea, or St. Vitus' dance, is a common sequent. The joints become swollen, red, hot, and painful even to agony. Relief of pain and *B. As adj.: Becoming or suiting a master of alkalinity of the blood are the most nece ary ind i rhetoric. "Boldly presum'd with rhetorician pride, To hold of any question either side." Black more : Creation , iii.